Native-Plant Adventures, With Elise Howard - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 8, 2026

When today’s guest, Elise Howard, and I talked on the show in March, her new book “Plant This, Not That” was just out. The popular book offers basic guidelines for selecting and using native plants, and specific substitutes for non-natives you may wish to replace. Once spring arrived, Elise got back to making a garden around her relatively new weekend home in Western Massachusetts—not just deciding what to grow, but thornier topics like tackling invasives and all the rest of what goes into rethinking a landscape with ecology in mind. I wanted to catch up again and hear how the implementation... Read More ›